As the healthcare industry continues to eye better transitions of care for patients who are recently incarcerated, community health centers agree they are poised to fill the gap, according to a new...
The patient experience for those who are transgender is still being marred by poor treatment from clinicians and coverage denials from their healthcare payers, according to the US Transgender Survey...
A community health worker-led program to address housing instability was effective at reducing primary care and outpatient care overutilization, proving that addressing the social determinant of health...
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra used last week’s Food is Medicine summit to unveil three new public-private partnerships with Instacart, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Feeding America, all with the...
Nearly two-fifths of trans youth ages 13 to 17 live in a state with legal restrictions to gender-affirming care access, which is the result of 23 states enacting such policies, according to a new KFF...
The move to hospital-at-home and home use of medical devices could be the biggest threat to patient safety this year, according to ECRI, prompting industry stakeholders to call for human-centered...
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) was able to reduce homelessness by 55 percent over a 13-year period, demonstrating the power of integrating social determinants of health interventions into the...
In the throes of the insurgence of generative AI, healthcare has a huge blind spot: consumers.
In a new report from Deloitte, experts found that most healthcare organizations are leaving behind the...
Social stigma is getting in the way of patient-provider communication about Alzheimer’s and other dementias, but there’s a way around that, according to researchers from the Regenstrief...
More kids are accessing healthcare in a retail setting, with care access in grocery store clinics, pharmacy clinics, and urgent care centers up from 2021 to 2022, according to the Centers for Disease...
Black Medicaid enrollees are more likely to experience a preventable hospitalization than their White counterparts, according to a new report, a trend that researchers at the Urban Institute said...
Maternity deserts are a growing problem in the United States, especially for rural hospitals that have to shutter labor and delivery departments at higher rates than their urban counterparts, according...
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is boarding patients in the emergency department nearly a third more often than it has in the past, marking a serious capacity problem that’s impacting...
A new study in JAMA Network Open is advocating for more depth and breadth during the pediatric hospital discharge process, asserting that providing caregiver and patient education with more health...
Transportation access continues to be a leading social determinant of health, with new CDC data showing it affected 5.7 percent of adults over the course of 12 months.
The report, which used 2022...
YouTube wants to help viewers learn first aid with a new slate of videos the social media and online video platform has posted to promote public health and first aid education.
The move comes as a...
HHS has finalized the last piece of the puzzle to restore the government’s process for handling complaints of conscience and religious discrimination, which the agency said will improve patient...
The Camden Coalition’s model for care management and care coordination may not have achieved its initial aims of reducing hospital readmissions, but the program was successful in improving...
Health IT company Socially Determined is teaming up with Uber Health to make it easier for payers and providers to flag patients with social determinants of health barriers, like transportation access,...
The landscape for people’s usual source of care is changing, with fewer people reporting a regular primary care provider, according to a Fast Facts report from the Employee Benefit Research...
